Pennsylvania, likely the most crucial swing state in Tuesday's election, is at the center of former President Trump's ramped-up push to raise doubts about voting procedures and the election itself.

• "They've already started cheating!" Trump said at a rally in Allentown thisweek as election officials in Pennsylvania and several other states began scrambling to counter misleading and false information spreading on social media.

Why it matters: For months, Trump has been laying the groundwork for post-election challenges if he loses on Tuesday — and with early voting underway, the ex-president and his allies are making sweeping, unsubstantiated claims that Pennsylvania's vote is tainted.

Zoom in: "WHAT IS GOING ON IN PENNSYLVANIA??? Law Enforcement must do their job, immediately!!! WOW!!!" Trump posted on Truth Social this week.

• He also posted that Lancaster County, Pa., had been "caught" with 2,600 "fake ballots and forms, all written by the same person" — a message that seemed to suggest county workers were involved in election fraud.
• In fact, the opposite was true, Lancaster officials and law enforcement said: It was election workers who identified about 2,500 suspicious voting applications — not ballots — and the county was investigating them. Their election security system had worked, experts said.
• In York County, Pa., officials said they were reviewing about 3,000 voter registration applications. That led Trump to say the county had received "thousands of potentially...

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